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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ chrisv on Thursday 29 January 2009 14:24 : \____
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>>> High Plains Thumper wrote:
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>>>> 23. Lie
>>>> Lie, lie, lie, lie. If you do it often enough you may create the
>>>> appearance of truth.
>>> Doesn't work for "Hadron". He just creates the appearence of a lying
>>> POS.
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>> It's a very comprehensive and almost exhaustive list of troll tactics.
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>> ...almost like the "technical evangelist" guidelines -- reverse engineered.
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>> Ever since Microsoft announced the layoffs, the trolls have been rather
>> impotent.
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> They've always been impotent. They're just fleas riding on a big dog.
> I don't take any pleasure in Microsoft's misfortunes, however.
>
>> Windows is now a freebie (for OEMs and sub-notebooks) and Office is under
>> siege as well. Microsoft is not prepared to deal with these market dynamics.
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> Sure they are. They've been diversifying for some time now. They
> didn't get to be where they are by being stupid.
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>> Intel is bruised too.
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> I don't see any reason to be happy about that either.
Intel is all about x86 and it's highly corrupt.
Regarding the former point: without Intel, the industry might escape to
MIPS/ARM, which takes Microsoft away from 'home base'.
Regarding the former: c.f. briberies vs. AMD; Vista collusion; attack on OLPC;
dirty tricks with OEMs and docs; past stories of fraud.
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